Background for the Conflict

It all started when north Vietnam wanted to become communist. The south part of Vietnam did not. The north and the south had a raging war at the border. At this time USA wanted to stop the communism from goring throughout the world. John F. Kennedy the current president of USA had to deal somthing whit it

A Vietnamese thats geting executed.

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The Different Sides

Soviet and China supported the north, and wanted to unite Vietnam under the communist pennant. Without weapons and provisions the shout was doomed to fall. The USA came in and helped the south. Later France also started to support South Vietnam.

Saigon

Saigon was the “capital” of the South Vietnam during the war. Saigon was also know as Ho Chi Minh-city. Saigon was heavily bombed in the war and it fall to the North 30th April 1975, that marked the end of the Vietnam war. Lots of people had no home.

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Soviet and China supported the north. Without weapons and provisions the shout was doomed to fall. The USA came in and helped the south. Later France also started to support South Vietnam.

The war clamed many lives

In 1975 the communists of the north pushed their forces to Saigon, and drove out the Americans. The Vietnam War had been a guerrilla war not an armywar. And after 18 years of war over 3 million people died in the war.

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Weapons and strategy under the Vietnam war

Guerrilla war is a form of war that’s popular to use if your army is outnumbered. It’s offend an nocturnal act. A few guerrilla worriers sneak in at night, steal something, kill some soldiers or explode a whole military camp. Guerrilla warfare was the mainly used in the Vietnam War, especially the native Vietnamese. They could hide in the jungle by day, and raid the US outposts at night.

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Napalm

Napalm explosion

Napalm is a bomb allot used in the Vietnam of the us. Army. It’s a very flammable bomb it burn in 3-5 hours and have the composite to stick to the skin and burn in a very high temperature and water have no effect on the napalm with stop the flame to burn.

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M16

M16 are an old weapon prodused in 1962 and first “used”
in the Vietnam war by the us. Army. Still used today by the us.
Army because the fire power and durability in the assault rifle.

This is M16. The US army used this weapon

	M16A1	M16A2	M16A4
Caliber	5.56x45mm (.223 Remington), M193	5.56x45mm NATO / M855	5.56x45mm NATO / M855
Action	gas operated, rotating bolt
Overall length	986 mm	1006 mm	1000 mm
Barrel length	508 mm	508 mm	508 mm
Weight, empty	2.89 kg	3.77 kg	3. 4 kg
Magazine capacity	20 or 30 rounds standard
Rate of fire, cyclic	650 - 750 rounds per minute	700 - 950 rounds per minute

Ak-47

AK-47

Ak 47 is an assault weapon first prodused in 1949 by Mikhail Klashkof in Russian. This is a VERY god durability because the design is so simple, sheep to produce and very solid. You can throw it in the sand, mud and water without any damage at the rifle.

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